Just a quick writeup. I kind of have to ask myself this to get my head cleared up. I have a mastodon account on mastodon.lol, and the more I genuinely explore, the more I genuinely wonder if it's right for me.
This might be a bit of a rant.
Oh boy, another Mastodon meta post to add to the pile
Like, okay. I'm a dweeb, a geek, a nerd, I wrote a generally surface level article about the YM2612 for crud's sakes! I've just sort of grown to see, though, a lot of the things over there, a lot of the people, are just devs/sysops/etc, and you know, that's fine, but I'm also not all about that, like, do I need to reevaluate who I follow? Or is it something else?
I've sort of been guilty for being a part of the whole camp of people defending federation, but I have to wonder, too, if Mastodon is doing it correctly. I think federation is a cool idea for decentralization or whatever have you, but Mastodon in particular seems heavily leaning against itself, and you know, as a nerd myself, I get excited about the prospective of some decentralized social media too, and I like to talk about it, but from what some people have analyzed, a lot of the talk there is "Mastodon good, but Twitter is stinky", even though it's practically a twitter formatted social media? I have an identity crisis on if I belong there, while Mastodon itself has an identity crisis on if it wants to be its own thing.
This is a little disorganized, need some thoughts thrown my way, is all.
EDIT: I'm also aware that this might depend on instance to instance, but I'm not entirely sure on the broader thing itself.
